From: Jason Zaman <perfinion@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:08:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160824120805.GB20943@meriadoc.perfinion.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160824193205.0ad0f559@katipo2.lan>
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 07:32:05PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:57:43 -0500
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > I thought about dropping the version number from the
> > display-if-installed line, but that doesn't make sense because it means
> > that everyone, including all new installs of OpenRC after this version,
> > would have to read the newsitem.
> >
> > William
> >
>
> That concern is in the wrong priority.
>
> "Your system might break" is more important than "ugh, annoying news items"
>
> Viewing the news item once per clean install is still less of a "Problem" than
I remember some time back there was talk about marking some news items
as read in new stage3's. That basically removes this annoyance
completely. I don't know how that ended up tho, maybe we should re-visit
it?
-- Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-24 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-22 22:57 [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3) William Hubbs
2016-08-24 7:32 ` Kent Fredric
2016-08-24 12:08 ` Jason Zaman [this message]
2016-08-24 13:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-08-24 14:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " waltdnes
2016-08-24 15:17 ` Kent Fredric
2016-08-24 17:07 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 17:41 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2016-08-24 21:59 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 22:51 ` Thomas Deutschmann
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